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2012
Mets Complete Sweep Of Marlins After Slam Dunk 5-1 Victory
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Is this the return of those seemingly miracle Mets we saw in the first three months of 2012? Now posting W’s in six of their last seven contests, the Amazins’ sit just half a dozen games under the .500 mark.
Before Chris Young even entered today’s ballgame, he was handed a five run lead thanks to an offense outburst headed by Jason Bay… yes, Jason Bay. It started off with back to back doubles by Ronny Cedeno and Justin Turner, followed by a David Wright RBI groundout to draw blood first. Kelly Shoppach and Ike Davis would reach base to load the bases with two out for Jason Bay. Prior to today’s game, Bay was batting an anemic .095 with runners in scoring position in 2012, well below the Mendoza line. However, this time around, the Mets slumped left fielder drove the ball over the 392 in left center for a grand slam, the fifth of his career, providing quite a sight for sore eyes, including his own.
From then on it was a tale of getting in and out of jams for both Chris Young and the Marlins’ Mark Buehrle. Young got in and out of trouble up until the fifth where the Fish finally ended the shutout on a Justin Ruggiano double to make it a 5-1 ballgame. Young finished with a final line of five innings pitched, allowing one run on five hits, while walking one and striking out three, improving his record to 4-7 and lowering his ERA to 4.48.
After those first five frames, the bullpen added another four goose eggs to their resurgent performance. Parnell, Edgin, Rauch and Francisco combined for that quartet of shutout innings, allowing just one hit and punching out a pair, slamming the door on the Marlins to pick up their third straight victory.
Notes:
Overall on the day, Jason Bay went 2-for-4 with a grand slam, a much needed day for Bay in a last-ditch effort at some possible redemption. It was hit his fifth career grand slam and his first since September 8, 2011 against the Braves.
Chris Young is now 3-1 with a 2.86 ERA in five career starts against the Marlins.
With his base-knock today, Ike Davis has now hit safely in 14 of his past 15 games.
Up Next:
The Mets are now off to St. Louis where Collin McHugh will make his second career start for the Mets against the Cardinals on Monday. Game time is 2:15 PM for the Labor Day matinee.
LETS GO METS!
About the Author: Clayton Collier
Clayton, a Long Island native and die-hard Mets fan, started writing online about three years ago. He is currently a Journalism major with a minor in Broadcasting at Seton Hall University. Although very disappointed with the current state of the team, Clayton remains hopeful that the young prospects in the farm system will bring the Mets back to a respected franchise in baseball once again. Besides writing for MMO, Clayton is also a staff member at 89.5 WSOU, Seton Hall's modern active rock radio station. You can contact Clayton by following him on Twitter: @Clayton_Collier or E-mailing him at MaybeNextYearMets@yahoo.com
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You know how I feel about Bay being a Met….
But I must say it’s not for a lack of trying on his part he is in no way the same as what we saw from Perez here…
We should eat his salary one way or the other but If we really wanted to help him I say we eat the salart get little to nothing in return provided we can find a team who has a bandbox Jason bay could thrive in cause I really do feel bad about the guy!
He is what you want as far as team player and all out effort but it just doesn’t pay off in results.
I do hope no matter how it plays out that Bay finds someone with a park he can thrive in to pick him up and give him another shot.
Cause you can’t really fault his effort just his results.
Metsie — I feel badly for Jason Bay too. The guy gave us his all. Too bad it didn’t result in more success. When the future plays out, I doubt the decisions that are made will be to explicitly help Jason. If they do wind up with Jason benefiting, it will simply be fortuitous.
I doubt it either and wasn’t suggesting they should go out of thier way to help him really…
Just hope he gets another shot somewhere that might help him have some success.
He sure has worked hard enough to earn it…Just can’t catch a break or hit a baseball with any regularity.
The 2012 Marlins should go down as the new worst team money could buy. I never expected anything more than a .500 season at beast for the Mets this season and it looks like they could still do it. But how would you like to be a Marlins fan these days? Is there anything worse than that in baseball right now? All that money spent to build a bad team and a bad park. How sweep it is!
It’s nice that you recognize the “reality” Mary!
The 2012 Mets were not a playoff team despite their good first half. Regardless of our own players, The Nationals, Braves, Phillies and Marlins all appeared to be much stronger than we were. As it turns out the Phillies and Marlins had horrible seasons themselves. I for one am glad to see that we have rebounded from the 6 weeks of terrible play following the break. I am also glad that because we are not playoff bound that our future young prospects are getting their feet wet and showing us where our future lies.
Baseball has always been about pitching and once again the organization is in the process of building what should be a formidable starting pitching corp. That is the answer and the solution we need to once again be a top flight team. The brass had a plan and they have stuck to it. we as fans just need to wait just a bit longer….2013 will be the start of another strong era of dominant Met pitching!
Hang in Mary!
Sweep in their backyard. Always fun.
The MAGIC is back!
Mets are now 5-2 this season in games where Bay hits a HR. Another sign of how bad a season Jason Bay has had this season is that today was just his 4th multi-hit game of the season.
One of the highlights this season will always be watching Capt Kirk beating Heath Bell for the win and the sweep way back in April.
“Ike Davis has now hit safely in 14 of his past 15 games.” He’s come a long way. I’m glad for him.
On to the Cardinals who will not be so easy to beat. McHugh is on the hill though so should be fun to watch him try to improve on his prior start.
Glad for Bay, maybe the pressure is off now. Tommy Agee had this kind of year the first year he was here in 1968. It did not help that Bob Gibson hit him in the head in Spring training, I believe of that year.
Great day for Jason Bay!!! Welcome to the world of fun and games, Jason. It’s the world of the 2012 New York Mets.
Upon considering the late season failure of the Mets, I tried to figure out what was the common element in our recent year’s September swoons. We Mets fans glory in assigning blame. I’ve hit upon it. Let’s blame it on Jose Reyes. Yes the same Jose Reyes we love as a player!!! Today he had 4 LOB. LOL.
P.S.: Only kidding but why are the Marlins with Jose taking a nosedive? Maybe he’s not CLUTCH. lol.
All Joking aside it’s pretty clear why they have always faltered last half of the season…
And it goes all the way back to 2006-2008 (2009 & 2010 being Injury plagued)
This team has been good but JUST good enough to compete.
But it required fighting every step of the way it never had the easy road to travel.
And as a result they fought all season and ran out of gas at the end.
2006-2008 if they had just one better pitcher a true ace type, they wouldn’t have choked.
And if they had one more this year and last we might not have waved the white flag in July either!
Could there be a dumber statement
The marlins payroll is lower than the mets and they gave up in July to get better next year. It’s called selling high. This management doesn’t seem to understand that… We strive for third place
you have it backwards. The Marlins have a much higher payroll (118mill vs. 93 mill) according to USA today. And they actually were buyers early in July, trading for Carlos Lee.
it was not until late in the month when they were tanking that they sold off some parts, though it would not surprise me if Hanley being traded was more “personal”, not just financial or to rebuild.
Bringing in “star” players w/o a certain amount of chemistry in dugout, which starts with Ozzie, is one thing I think Marlins didn’t consider since they went and signed Jose w/o Hanley being informed, then told to move to 3B plus Sanchez just losing his way, a la Bay, at 1B a position that he was counted on to provide power and defense.
The fact that this stadium plays big means that you bring in fast, athletic players not necessarily power hitters because even with Stanton, Sanchez, Ramirez and then Lee they could not score, 14 shut outs so far!
Glad that Mets are once again playing great against he NL East as they did early in season.
Goal is to reach .500 at least.
Saw in local paper that Mets were 67-69 on this date last year so I hope we keep up the recent surge and finish strong to have something good to build on next year.
Why not exchange Bay for Zambrano? Just kidding his mental state fluctuates and I can see him getting into it with TC.
The Marlins are terrible. That park sucks. Itlooks like a depressing dump with that gayboy special out past the centerfield fence. And their uniforms are hideous.
Sometimes life is good!
mets back in 3rd, after the Phils gave up a 5 spot in the nice to lose to the Bravos.
Man, I hate the Phils. So a double win!
Stick. I don’t care for the Phils either but the ump was in the pocket of the Braves in the bottom of the ninth. I saw it and Paplebon had Bourne struck out and Prado too. It is bad when MLB games are not determined by the players but by umpires that SUCK, INCOMPETENT, OR GET PAID OFF. MLB umpiring is ruining the game. When he tried to get a fastball by Chipper Jones, he had no choice because he was not getting any calls on good pitches that were clearly strikes. Yeah I am not a Philly fan but I don’t like to see a team cheated by corrupt umpiring. MLB protects them and it is ruining the game.
I don’t know who Bud Selig should order the urine test on… Bay for hitting the g-slam or Burleigh for giving it up. Anyway, couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…. the worst owner in sports: Jeffrey Loria. Yes, worse than Saul, Fred and Jeff.
Can Wright do what AGON and Chipper did Sunday? I don’t think so. I am afraid he is not of the same ilk. Look Ike is adequate protection. Wright was hot when he had way less protection. We can keep Wright for nostalgia purposes. I did not do reseach but I bet Wright’s BABIP has nosedived. He is making contact but they are harmless ground balls with some doubles to right field. Bottom line Wright is no AGON or ChipperJones. Defense is a different story as he is a gold glover.
No he isn’t Agon or Chipper Jones…
Keith Hernandez was no Daryl Strawberry
And Ray Knight was no AGon, Chipper Jones or even a David Wright!
But we still needed them to win a WS!
I get where some are disappointed after having such lofty goals for DW.
And I get that what he is likely to make in an extention may seem more then somemother better players are getting on deals they signed years ago…
But the bottom line is if we have as many BAD players as some suggest the last thing this team can reall afford to lose is one of the BEST on the team!
Clutch/Not Clutch Agon/Not Agon really doesn’t matter!
Not every player on your team is going to be a hall of famer…
But even having a Hall of Famer is not enough if you can’t keep good players to play around them!
Huge Met fan since 76. I just heard your radio show and it was excellent. I had no idea you did that and would like to know how often and what days do you broadcast. Look forward to hearing your next show. Again, nice job.
The Red Sox are looking for a right handed power hitting outfielder… Hahaha. How strange would that be if Bay ended up back with Boston, playing LF at a discount.
Don’t feel bad for Bay. He is still young and I get the sense that many times would be happy to give him a shot.
as soon as his price is ML minimum or a MiL invite, then yes, plenty of teams will take a look to see if a new environment can revitalize him. Probably not, but like you say, he is still only 34 or so. Not young by BB standards, but not totally over the hill!